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Show fteminiscences Of Alex Toponce tvas atvful tiJffti ve. I v ery c expensi Cou Id you give us a time Alex, on some of $3,000? he asked. Continued From Preceding Page "Sure, I replied, if you say for $75 apjece, but he would so, I will give you time on all hae to send someone to ac- of it. cept the forty on the range as he said, just part of No, I would not bring them to Salt Lake City subject to approval. it. . . say $1500, give us sixty So he sent his sons Joseph A., days without interest. All right, I told him. who was his private secretary, The church office was a big amt Bishop Jenkins. They picked out forty of the best ones room full of clerks and officials and I had them driven down writing and working at their desks. to bait Lake. Brighams office was fenced off from the rest of the I went to Salt Lake and callroom by a low partition about ed at the church office. Brigham as high as a mans shoulders. Moving ordered out his fine car Brigham told one of his clerks Tiniso and we drove down to to give me $1500 cash and told Fo-- s & flouts feed stable where Joseph A. Young, his secretary the Wilson hotel now stands. to make a note of $1500 due in The mules were in the corral. sixty' days, with one percent inI never saw a wilder bunch of terest per month after maturyoung devils than those mules. ity, which Brigham signed. As he handed me the note he None of them had been broI guess, Alex, that will be ken, and most of them had nev- said: er had a human hand on them, all right without security, wont it? except when they were branded. I looked at the note as I stepThey' had been born and raised office and said: and could ped out of his in the mountains That will be all right, Mr. climb a cliff like a goat. Young. I dont suppose you Bngham was delighted with would go out and ask some Genthem. They are a fine bunch, tile to endorse it, not for the he said. world; and as for the Mormon A little bit wild, I suggest- side of the house, all the names ed he in Utah wouldn't make it any Oh, thats all right, said, Ill show you how to better. All these clerks had been lisbreak mules, Alex. I replied. tening, and when I said that "Yes you will, Youll do just like me. Youll they all laughed and two or keep just f irtv rods away from three called out to him: Thats a good one on you, Mr. Presithem. We drove back to the church dent. office, and on the way Brigham Brigham joined in the laugh began to talk hard times. They and escorted me to the door, had spent a lot of money on the where we shook hands as he street car system, and it re- bid me goodbye. The note was paid promptly mained to be seen whether it I - Reminiscences of Alex Toponce give a vivid picture of Corinne in its earlier days, when its main street looked much as pictured above. Toponce sered as mayor of CoRox Elder rinne at one time, but declined the honor of serving wild and wooly county as sheriff. on the date w'hen due. From mission. The plans include: the first to last, I found Brigham Young the squares! man to do 1. Construction of a new subterranean parking garage to accommodate 4,000 automobiles under the State Square in the heart of Long-Rang- e Plans Will Capital the city. Streamline Columbus, O. 2. Removal of the Ohio Penitentiary and construction of a COLUMBUS, O. (U.P.) new rnil passenger terminal newa planners envision er and better downtown Colum-fbu- s on its present site. 3. Annexation of Port Columwhen the results of the City bus air terminal to the city. Commissions program Planning 4. Construction of a new State become an actuality. Highway Patrol headquarters nearer the downtown area. Five major plans in the 5. Gradual elimination of city improvement plan have been laid before the com business and industry from the business with in Utah, barring none, Mormon, Jew or Gentile. three-tie- r Long-rang- e I far-flun- g west bank of the Scioto River and transforming the area into a parkway. The results of civic efforts to improve traffic and transportation conditions in the capital city will begin to show themselves in other changes this fall. Practically all trolley cars are to be removed from city streets by fall and be replaced by trolley coaches or gasoline buses. As an experiment, the city has banned late afternoon parking on certain streets to speed traffic and has up designated some streets as oneway thoroughfares. home-goin- g Welcome To Peach Days W. A. RITCHIE Just A Little DIFFERENT PHONE 159 29 South Main Street "The Same Friendly Welcome Brigham City, Utah To Visitors or Friends " We Cater To LADIES and |